The International Monetary Fund said Greece had made "exceptional" progress in stabilizing its economy and remains on course to emerge from a near six-year recession in 2014, despite missing targets to ax state jobs and the threat of an 11 billion euro ($14.6 billion) gap in bailout financing.Full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar rallied on Wednesday, recovering from a one-month low against the yen, as upbeat U.S. economic growth and private-sector jobs data cemented expectations that the Federal Reserve will start to scale back its asset-buying this year. Full story

German drug and chemicals company Bayer AG says net profit rose 75 percent in the second quarter thanks to lower one-time charges and strong sales of new products including anti-clotting drug Xarelto and cancer drug Stivarga. Full story

File photo of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble attending a conference on the Euro zone crisis in Strasbourg, September 3, 2012. Two years ago, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was on the point of giving up his role as iron fist in the euro zone debt crisis, but the 70-year-old ch

An activist of the Mortgage Victim's Platform exits a Banco Popular branch which they had occupied for five hours in Valencia July 26, 2013. Activists occupied Banco Popular branches in 20 Spanish cities, demanding the cancellation of the debt of Jose Antonio Gomez Haro, who said he took out a Banc